FRANCES HAS RIGHT ASPECT FOR A PRIZE
A KIRRIEMUIR-BASED artist has been short listed for one of the art world's biggest privately funded awards, The Aspect Prize.
Frances Law, who won the Scottish National Art Prize in 2008, was declared a finalist in the prestigious painting prize at the opening of the Aspect Prize Exhibition in Paisley Art Gallery and Museum on June 11.
Since leaving Glasgow School of Art in 1980, Frances has supported her practice by working part-time and gained experience in higher and further education, community arts and healthcare.
Her inspiration is drawn from natural forms and in particular shells found on the beaches of Mull and Iona. The influence of the Hebrides in her work has unconsciously driven her to produce an uncrowded space, an invitation to meditation.
Her three fellow finalists are; Adam Kennedy, whose brother Paul Kennedy was short listed for the last year's prize, Rowena Comrie, who recently completed a 20ft map of Scotland for the BBC painted on tarmac and Steven Lindsay, who was a chart-topping recording artist in the 1980s with his band, The Big Dish.
All four artists received 5,000 at the opening of the annual Aspect Prize exhibition at Paisley Art Gallery & Museum. The quartet are now in line for the premier award of 15,000, which will be awarded at the Aspect Prize Finalists' exhibition.
This will take place in January 2011 at The Fleming Collection in London. The artists will spend the next six months working towards this exhibition.
The Fleming Collection, an Embassy for Scottish Art in London, is the largest private collection of Scottish Art in the world. The overall winner will have their painting displayed within the collection.
Aspect Prize Chairman Charles Jamieson said: "Very rarely, a group of judges react as one with gasps of delight and astonishment when viewing work. It happened this year when we were selecting the finalists for the Aspect Prize.
"We have selected four sensitive, observant, skillful and passionate artists. Artists who are ready to take what they already have and move it forwards. Who need and deserve this opportunity to develop and to discover for themselves and for all of us too. This is an exciting year for The Prize."
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